Stumbling on Happiness

Name: Stumbling on Happiness
Rating: 4.054054260253906 (37 reviews)

Daniel Gilbert

Jun 2009 · HarperCollins UK

4.1

37 reviews

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In this fascinating and often hilarious work – winner of the Royal Society of Science Prize 2007 – pre-eminent psychologist Daniel Gilbert shows how – and why – the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy.

We all want to be happy, but do we know how? When it comes to improving tomorrow at the expense of today, we're terrible at predicting how to please our future selves.

In ‘Stumbling on Happiness’ Professor Daniel Gilbert combines psychology, neuroscience, economics and philosophy with irrepressible wit to describe how the human brain imagines its future – and how well (or badly) it predicts what it will enjoy. Revealing some of the amazing secrets of human motivation, he also answers thought-provoking questions – why do dining companions order different meals instead of getting what they want? Why are shoppers happier when they can't get refunds? And why are couples less satisfied after having children while insisting that their kids are a source of joy?

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4.1

37 reviews

Terman Gümüş

June 17, 2024

beware might be fake. Same book with two different covers in Google books. I purchased this copy and it has only 70 pages, pages of references included

Nigel Senior (Nigel S)

January 1, 2013

It doesn't matter what I say as your mind will fill in what you want, I'm guessing based on the book anyhow. A good read but bit a self help book :-D

8 people found this review helpful

Norbert van Beek

October 12, 2020

This version is not good. Had to change to the one that cost 6,90. Refund when good and fast. Only 70 pages.

9 people found this review helpful

About the author

Daniel Gilbert was born in 1957 and is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, including the Phi Beat Kappa Teaching Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. His research has been featured in the 'New York Times Magazine', Forbes, Money, 'The New Yorker', 'Scientific American', 'Oprah Magazine', 'Psychology Today', and more. His short stories have appeared in 'Amazing Stories' and 'Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine', as well as other magazines and anthologies. 'Stumbling on Happiness' was awarded the Royal Society of Science Prize in 2007.

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